debian python3-xpra packaging

[Antoine Martin]

Looks like you may want to switch to pybuild: ​debian docs: dh_python.

The changelog for all the debian packaging lives here: log/xpra/trunk/debian

[Antoine Martin]

Done in r20693, tested on Ubuntu 18.10 and Debian Stretch.

Maybe split the html5 client too?

[Antoine Martin]

Lots of packaging pain: r20724 + r20725, r20722, r20702

• update build options for newer distro variants: r20714
• remove redundant chmod: r20716
• dep updates: r20718, r20717
• ubuntu workarounds: r20720 + r20723
• xenial workarounds: r20721, r20719, r20715
• ubuntu / debian use a different pkgconfig name: r20703

[Antoine Martin]

More:

• r20732 build-depends goes it main section
• r20733 + r20734 remove ugly strip hack, workaround man page opaque dh automagic failures

Still TODO:

• the /usr/bin/xpra* scripts use python2.. ideally we should replace them with a shell script and run python2 or python3 based on which version is installed - the same problem applies to RPM packaging
• same for the various utility scripts (cups forwarder, etc): we don't care which python version is used for those - but we have to specify one?

[Antoine Martin]

(dh: what a mazy steaming pile...)

No amount of contortions would make dh do the right thing. It always ended up bundling some icons or systemd file in the xpra package instead of xpra-common, so r20735 (+r20739 fixup) gives up the battle and puts those files there.

• xpra is now what xpra-common was meant to be: icons, html5 client, systemd files, etc
• python2-xpra
• python3-xpra

As for the scripts, r20736 (+r20738) removes xpra_browser (saves us a man page to maintain) and r20737 tries the other python interpreter if we fail to import xpra with the current (ie default) one.

Still TODO:

• man page handling - currently replaced by a find command
• check dependencies and test installation on all supported platforms (esp xenial)
• split html5 (easy?)

[Antoine Martin]

• r20740 splits the html5 client
• dependencies tested OK

[Antoine Martin]

Updates:

• r20858: man pages fixed.
• r20856 + r20857: minor build warnings
• r20744: dependency fixup
• r20745: unity appindicator pain

See also:

• #2007 use os background image - lots of packaging updates related to that too
• #853 python3 server support - in progress

Works-for-me.

[migration script]

this ticket has been moved to: ​https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1990